#lofi / slacker rock

[setthephaserstorot]

1,299,999 people don't fw carseat headrest like I do

[shibarisaint]

I can't figure out which personality to pursue cause they all they all pertain to me at the same time

[doyoulikethisemoband]

[francium420]

my first album is out on bandcamp! it's a lofi mess but it's been a really great way to express things i couldn't express through my visual art

[liuah]

upcoming album !

these are just some details about the album i'm working on 🤞

it's gonna be a concept album on my first love. it's gonna be pretty personal and specific to my situation. the lyrics, while i still find them to be relatable to a lot of people, are going to have some small things only i would understand, and some specific things that happened.

it's by far my best work at this point. my first 2 albums were practically just a published version of my song folder. they were made in one session which usually lasted only an hour or something. this album, however, is a long project in the works. at the time of writing this i've created the instrumentals to 6 of the 10 tracks, half of them have lyrics, and only 1 is mostly finished (which is a song that has been released before, but there's lyric changes and i might change the structure as well. who knows, i might take it off the album entirely).

i hope to get it finished by early 2025. it may be earlier or it could even be later (that's unlikely, but that's what every artist says).

this really is my passion project right now and i can't wait to get it finished and released :)

[nymclem]

Clementine’s Private Army - I Only Hear Your Voice in the Quiet Parts, OUT NOW!!!!!!!!

https://open.spotify.com/album/3pmpBMTXUhWsWwv6q6jw25?si=nQmgaww0QDSsytH6gaFHQQ

[ajvegarabbit]

this is an old demo i recorded nearly two years ago that i recently added a bass track to :p thinking of fully remaking it and a couple of other songs i recorded around the time and released as a little not-album... should i?

lyrics:

If you wanna embrace me You better not fucking chase me If you want to taste these lips You better respect me

I don't ask for a lot Oh my god, what a thought All I ask is some sense You better respect me

(Solo!)

If you wanna embrace me You better not fucking chase me If you wanna taste these lips You better respect me

[tinybloodmoon]

my first EP is out on bandcamp !! it's called "near light" and you can listen and download for free !!

[luuurien]

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

(Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Post-Rock)

The indie rock mainstay's latest album anchors them in the present and doesn’t try to obscure or alter your vision of it. This Stupid World is Yo La Tengo’s most unvarnished record to date, but the familiarity and safety of the trio’s bittersweet indie rock makes staring into darkness an invitation to fully inhabit the present.

☆☆☆☆☆

Few rock bands can still be making music together forty years in and still feel refreshed and reignited with each release, and Yo La Tengo have never ceased to let the world guide them to new truths. Through their open-ended indie rock where anything from bossa nova to noise rock can be a part of their storytelling, Yo La Tengo have the incredible ability to make their music relaxing and familiar even when the styles they play with have a tendency to create a barrier between you and the music, their heaviest moments shockingly comfortable to situate yourself in. It’s through their mastery of heartfelt indie rock they can make an album like This Stupid World such a beauty despite how they fight their way through tumbling post-rock jams and scraggly noise pop, Yo La Tengo reaching into the darkness to embrace what they have right now. Listlessness is at the core of This Stupid World, but Yo La Tengo succeed though knowing that their time together is precious nonetheless. Between winding avant-rock and plaintive folk excursions, This Stupid World welcomes extremity Yo La Tengo can then use to tell stories of stress, inescapable tragedy, and individual healing without losing the freedom and love their music prides itself on.

There are only really two kinds of songs in This Stupid World - immediate, noisy indie rock and contemplative folk/country tunes - but by keeping themselves in a solid spot between raucous noise pop and thoughtful meditations on the world around them, Yo La Tengo lets you disappear into their world while keeping your eyes on the road ahead. Sinatra Drive Breakdown pushes you straight into the band’s new muck, Georgia Hubley and James McNew locking in on a thick motorik groove as Ira Kaplan wrestles with guitar feedback and tumbling solo sections, the few moments Hubley and Kaplan sing together glimpses of human connection peeking through dread, Brain Capers and the title track near the album’s end further inducing a state of blissful anxiety where anger and fear reside within heavenly, mind-numbing shoegaze. When they lighten up on all the feedback and distortion, they welcome you into their arms through the regal country balladry of Aselestine or Apology Letter’s minimalist folk rock so that Kaplan can admit his own faults in a moment of prime Yo La Tengo bittersweetness, quiet moments between the foreboding day-to-day of Tonight’s Episode or Brain Capers’ mighty shoegaze where staring into the abyss feels just a little less lonely. As triumphant a return This Stupid World is for the band, it’s no different than anything they’ve released in their near four decades as a band together, Yo La Tengo speaking to the darkness of whatever’s going on around them at the time and inviting you to indulge in despair without feeling completely alone along the way.

Grief hangs over every minute of This Stupid World, but the band never point at anything too specific as the culprit: the surprise sadness that strikes Hubley while watching TV in Aselestine (“The TV's on / I see your face / …Cue applause I cry for us”), a desire for connection with lost loved ones in the weightless finale Miles Away (“Friends are all gone / Keep wiping the dust from your eyes”), the inability to look away from tragedy in Fallout (“I'd turn away, if only I could / I want to fall out of time / Hold back, unwind”); they’re all individual parts of a larger despondency with the world after spending so many years living in it and seeing what they love be both ripped away and slowly disappear in front of them. They’ve stood the test of time as a band, and This Stupid World is a reminder of what has made them such a monumental part of indie rock since the late ‘80s, how their music touches on broad feelings through specific imagery and thoughtful musicianship that can embrace the tougher edges of rock as much as it embraces the rawness of singer/songwriter music. It’s both Hubley’s comforting laugh as the ambiance of amplifiers fills up the first seconds of Aselestine and the maddening drones in the title track that are needed to make This Stupid World such a perfect collection of songs, Yo La Tengo comforting you into the darkness while holding close everything they love along the way.

Though it rarely feels like we’re getting any further from the chasm with each passing day, This Stupid World asks you to walk closer to it rather than run away. Tragedy is impossible to fully escape, and sometimes the best decision is to let it take you over so that the days after aren’t as hard. Whether they’re tangled in wiry, long-form anxiety rock or attempting to ease themselves with some of their lightest songs to date, This Stupid World is one of the most comforting commentaries on darkness in recent years that doesn’t sacrifice love in the face of disaster. They know what’s coming for them next, but that only makes the time they have together now more valuable, Yo La Tengo still doing what they love and capturing a blurry but essential picture of living with the depths slowly closing in on you. As heartbreaking as the world can be, we all have to keep living through it all.

[iamlisteningto]

my bloody valentine’s Isn’t Anything

[cowboy-tendencies]

Rock and Roll Night Club - Mac DeMarco

[studentofetherium]

top 5 music genres?

this is really hard to settle down on... genre is really vague, inherently, and a lot of stuff i like can blend one or more genres, but i guess i'll say:

post-rock (godspeed you black emperor, toe, the world is a beautiful place & i am no longer afraid to die)

prog rock (yes, king crimson, jethro tull)

lofi/slacker rock (car seat headrest, noa mal, the microphones)

nightcore (maedasalt, plastic neesound, cyte)

indie folk (sufjan stevens, the mountain goats, bon iver)

there's a lot of stuff i like that isn't represented here! also this one isn't ordered because it's all vague anyway

[doyoulikethisemoband]

[francium420]

finally uploaded my music to youtube

[liuah]

untitled demo

(heavily) inspired by an old demo of famous prophets (minds)

going to most likely change things, as i feel like this is way too close to the original (specifically the beginning)

going on an album i'm working on. it's the first album i'm really putting actual work into instead of just throwing down a song in 1 hour and releasing it in a slop album.

it'll be a concept album, i'll probably post more about it in a second.